American Reacts to 6 MUST TRY Foods in Bergen, Norway
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When I first reacted to Bergen I was amazed at how incredible the sights and attractions were. So today I am very excited to react and learn about the 6 must try Norwegian food options in Bergen, Norway. From what I can tell food in Norway is shockingly different than food in the United States, which should make this video extra interesting. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Those 3 dishes they had at the last restaurant are all considerend common everyday food in Norway. Of course they were served a little more fancy than you would have them at home.
I don't think they are served more fancy. These last three dishes are made and served with similar recipes as one would use at home.
And I always go to Pingvinen when I visit Bergen. And I always have the Plukkfisk because that's not something I make at home :)
@@mgranseth Everything is subjective, I suppose. When I eat fiskegrateng at home, I just pop it in the oven for however many minutes, pull it out and eat it from the foil packet, so... Pingvinen is definitely fancier ;)
@@torgnyaanderaa2334 It has to be "God gammeldags...", though!
@@ahkkariq7406 That IS one of the better ones :)
I hade fiskegrateng last night!
Yes, the fish and macaroni dish is very common. both homemade or storebought Some people would eat dish once a week
My beautiful hometown Bergen ❤
Unfortunately, he starts at Fisketorget, which is now completely ruined by extreme prices. It is no longer for the ordinary citizen but has become a tourist trap. But they have a very large selection of high quality seafood.
"Trekroneren" has existed since 1948 and the name comes from when Dag Hjellestad took over in 1978 and sold the Viennese sausages for three kroner.
The selection of sausages is legendary, Europe's largest selection of sausages with 24 different varieties, in addition to Europe's largest sausage at a whopping 250g.
A must for anyone who is hungry before going home after a night out on the town.
Brunost is exported and sold in the USA, mostly in Minnesota, which has a large proportion of citizens with Norwegian cultural heritage.
Pingvinen serves traditional Norwegian home cooking that has been served in Norwegian homes for centuries.
And I saw my friend Tim sitting in the background at the bar 🤟He is one of many Black Metal musicians who come from Bergen.
The fish was probably caught same day or late day before.
16:06 Both dishes are _very_ traditional Norwegian dinners, and as "not-fancy" as you can get 🙂They used to be something you had for dinner at least once every week or so, but Norwegians like to try new foods, so many people would regard these as "boring" dishes 😇 But they are both very good and "hearty", and you should definitely try them
16:20 this is as typical meal you can get. The stew, the meatballs, the fish gratin, all of that was something I grew up on. There’s different variants, and simplified versions of it, but this was very typical food for me growing up. It’s not as typical today, and to a large extent been replaced by pizza, taco, spaghetti dishes and kebabs.
Yeah, replaced by shitty junk food.
I would say its still VERY typical
Yes, I tend to agree, but I think it depends on where you’re at in Norway and your families tradition. Living on the east side of Norway close to Oslo with kids, I see a lot of the latter, pizza/spaghetti/taco taking over. Kids hanging out or birthdays, are not with stew and flatbread, that’ll be pizza or sausages.
@@artificiusintelligence4996 fair enough
I didn't even know there were these many videos on YT about my country. Thanks for reacting to them and showing us your journey through learning more about Norway, it really is interesting and quite inspiring actually.
Brown cheese is not THAT sweet. It's really only slightly sweet, it's just sweet for being cheese. The sweetness is very subdued, though, it's just a hint that complements the taste of the cheese itself, which has varying degrees of sharpness. It's definitely not the type of overbearing sweetness you might be imagining from how it keeps being described in these videos.
There are plenty of Norwegians who don't eat fish, by the way. You really wouldn't have to force yourself if you don't like fish. It also comes in many different traditional forms which don't really taste fishy at all, so I would say it's still worth it to try those, even if you hate fish.
Come to Norway and eat some seafood, brown cheese, and leverpostei 👍
So awesome to see you react to another video from my hometown! Kjøttkaker and fiskegrateng (the meals the guys had at the restaurant) are common dishes here in Norway, and although we don't eat it every day, they're still common to find on the dinner table in Norwegian homes. I've actually never tried the sausages at that sausage kiosk although I've always heard that they're the best sausages in town. I'll definitely try them someday. :)
I used to serve brunost to my fellow students at uni in Australia, melting on toast with blueberry jam on top. They all looked shocked beforehand, and they all loved it when tasting it. 😉 You need to stop thinking about cheese as you know it, and embrace the caramel idea. You can also get prim, which is basically spreadable brunost. Very yummy and far better than chocolate spread.
In Norway you can eat Reindeer, Moose, Whale, Lagopus(Grouse), amongst other; But if there is one delicacy that I would argue is a MUST TRY if you are able to get your hands on it is something called ''Torsketunge/Torsketunger'', it roughly translates to ''Cod's Tongue'', because that is what it is, it's the tongues of the fish Cod that is fried on the grill or deepfried, after being prepared in a mix of flour, salt and pepper. It it served with cooked potatoes, lingonberries, boiled carrots, onions fried in butter and some have pea stew with it too. While ''tongue'' doesn't sound that good, I can tell you it's freaking delicious and a delicacy that is a MUST if you are able to find it.
Missing Pinnekjøtt :) Yummy salted/dried (sometimes smoked) lamb rib steamed on birch wood. Make this every year,where I live now near Ottawa, Canada. In Bergen right now. :) .
Speaking of berries, If you ever get a chance to go to Norway (or Scandinavia in general), you should definitely try cloudberries (multebær). They have a very distinctive flavor and you either like it or not, but it is a very traditional and quite exclusive berry which is used for some very classical Norwegian desserts and preserves.
When I lived in Seattle my father would go to Ballard, the Scandinavian district, and buy Ski Queen goat cheese, whole anchovies in a tin and tubes of cod caviar.
Fish based dinner at least once a week is fairly common in Norway. Its quite healthy as well.
13:46 that’s flatbread, also very typical/traditional serving to stews and soups. There’s several types/recipes depending on where you’re at in Norway. I remember helping my grandmother making these on large iron skillets (steketakke) as a kid. My dads side of the family not far from Bergen still make this like my grandmother did.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbrød
I find it amusing that you are so hesitant against the brown cheese since Americans "from what I have understood" love sweet things and you are familiar with orange burger cheese and that's pretty close to brown. ;)
Completely common foods, these. Also, this makes me homesick for my hometown...
(Quick tip for your pronounciation; when you see a vowel in a Norwegian word, you pronounce it. So, when you were trying to pronounce "Fiskegrateng", you started out correct, but in your second try, you dropped the first 'e'.)
Lapskaus, Kjøttkaker and Fiskegrateng (what they ate at the restaurant) is pretty average Norwegian food. It goes under the cathegory of ''Husmannskost'' which is traditional Norwegian (and Scandinavian) in general. Also the fish used in Fiskegrateng is usually Cod (Torsk) or Pollock/Pollack (Sei), but you can also use Salmon or Trout.
Ja, det kalles «Husmannskost» av mange i dag, selv om de færreste av dem spiste noe av de norske rettene vi spiser i dag. Før kalte vi det «Bondekost,» og det var nok nærmere sannheten. Husmennene var heldig om de hadde ett par sild på deling som de kunne koke inn i grøten av vann, tran og byggryn. Vi spiste mer husmannskost da jeg var ung. Feks. spekesild og surmelk med kavring, men det var fortsatt luksuriøst i forhold til de rettene de stammer i fra 🤭 Men i min familie, og sikkert flere, så skilte mann på hva som ble kalt husmannskost og bondekost, og det er kanskje litt ordsnobberi. Men jeg husker godt da mor med glimt i øyet sa «at i dag tenkte jeg vi skulle ha litt god gammel husmannskost.» Da var det neigu ikke kjøttkaker i vente 😂 Vel, dette var mest ment som fun fact. All Norsk tradisjonsmat blir tross alt kalt «husmannskost» i dag.
Brown Cheese (Brunost) isn't sweet like ''candy sweet'', the sweetness of it isn't the emphasis, it's more just a ''hint'' of the sweetness of caramel.
i live in norway and eat lapskaus, meatballs and yes fiskegrateng, you should try it it's really good
If you go to Minnesota you'll find alot of brunost. They probably also sell waffles with it.
Saw "Norwegian Brunost-cheese" in a supermarket in Miami when visiting from Norway many years ago. Was a stock Norwegian brand.
eat them often, kjøttkaker is so yum, deffently when it's home made 😄
Yep. The "fish pie" (fiskegrateng) is a very common weekday dish all over Norway. I've always hated it though 😄. Usually a boring bland taste.
And regarding lamb. If lamb is an option for a dish, you should *always* choose lamb over beef! 😋
Around Hennepin in Minnesota you can get brown cheese in stores.
I eat food like the ones from that last restaurant basically everyday
Lapskaus comes in two varieties. Light or dark (lys eller mørk in norwegian) The dude in the video had a version of the light one. The dark one is usually heartier and has brown sauce in it. Both are basically a mish mash of some kind of meat and different kinds of veggies mixed with some sauce or Broth and combined into a stew. It’s usually made with leftovers from previous dinners, so as to not waste any food.
not at all out of the ordinary. I have Fiskegrateng once per week
doesnt Minnesota have lots of Norwegian food to try?
Yes, it is traditional dinner that we see here.
What there guys had for dinner is pretty much "everyday food".
You can get "brown Cheese" in Minnesota
The lapskaus was often used on Norwegian ships. And since Norwegian ships and Norwegian sailors was well known around the big harbors in Europe the lapskaus was known in places like Hamburg in Germany and Liverpool in England. So much so that to this day people from Liverpool are known as "scoucers" in the rest of the country, as this dish became so popular in Liverpool, interesting facts!
Its normal to eat for dinner especially in the western part of norway. Fiskegrateng you should try, Its magic.
10:40 You can get brown chesse/ Geitost in many supermarkets in the US, and it's even easier to find in states like Minnesota, North Dakota, and any state with a larger number of Norwegian expats or descedants 😇Look for Ski Queen or Tine
Ah… Bad he miss the famous fish soup in Bergen. And raspeballer they serve everywhere every thursday. But good video. Tell if you visit Bergen we help you around here. Its more you still not see, like Akvariet and Ulriken Where its higher up and better view then Fløyen. You need travel with the gondol up there and resturant there to.
I think its ok he missed the raspeballer, lol
@@OrIoN1989 😉
Yeah, reindeer meat is quite common in Norway, and you can buy it at regular grocery stores, but prices have skyrocketed the last few years. In my household, we often had some kind of reindeer dish earlier, but not anymore, since it has become so expensive. It's very delicious, though :)
You do have reindeer in the US (in Alaska), but you usually call them caribou.
And no, those dishes at the restaurant are not typical just for the western region, they're common everywhere. And we do cook them at home, often.
I’m watching this video while eating breakfast; bread slices with brown cheese. Yesterday I ate exactly that dish with meatballs. I use raindeer meat to make a sami stew called “finnbiff” and I sometimes eat dried raindeer hearts. 😊
According to some Sami I knew finnbiff isn't Sami. Their theory is that the Norwegians bought meat from the Sami and came up with the idea of finnbiff.
But who cares? Point is yummy yum 😋
Ok. Browncheese comes in many variations. From the mildest to the craziest scale. We also have Oldcheese that mostly no one else than Norwegians can eat. The Meatball version in Norway is a bigger version of the one you get at IKEA etc. We also have some porridge dishes too. One is sour cream porridge and the other is with rice. We eat them with cinnamon, sugar, and butter depending on who likes what.
The bread which they tasted in the restaurant is flatbread. It is one of the most traditional breads in Norway that you eat with several dishes.
Also, what the sausage part didn't tell you is that we often eat with lompe instead of bread. Lompe is a type of potatoebread that you cover the sausage with. Bread is also used. In the Fredrikstad and Moss area of Norway, they even eat sausage with waffles. Great video!
My favorite dinner in Norway is a dish called kobbekjøtt (seal meat). You allready know about my hometown Tromsø, and Tromsø is the capital of kobbekjøtt. When the sealing boats come in with there catch in May, it's pandemonium to purchase the meat.
You should see the new norwegian movie named Troll!
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Dude, just pack up your stuff, order your ticket and get your ass over here! :D We both know Norway is all over your mind ;)
Love your content. Been watching the Norwegian videos for a while now and im so happy when u make them on my home town Bergen
The foods they where trying at the Penguin is basically "commoners" food, traditionally speaking. Fiskegrateng (the "fish pie") in my region in the north is consumed regularly, often multiple times per week. This is because its fast and easy, as you can buy premade and just heat it for 40 mins in a regular oven. Although they are seldom as good as homemade (but that goes for most food, as we all know). Of course, pizza probably beats it, except with older people.
Ohhh...You mean the Bergen-located "3-kroneren"? with HANDMADE sausages from all over the world? And all the fixings you can DREAM of?
That ONLY exist in Bergen Im afraid..They have a mobile streetfood-thing in the weekends and a store where they sell ...ALOT of variants.
My personal favorite is the white polish sausages!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Brunost is also common in Sweden -though more and more the higher up you get.. in Sweden it's more common that we have something like it but more of a a creamed cheese-butter called "Fjällbrynt".
Raindeer is cheeper in Norway and the north of Sweden due to lower transport cost. Sheep and pork is cheaper in the south of Sweden because of the same reasons I guess.
The food in the restaurant were very simular to our food in Sweden -and yes it's just upscaled versions of traditional food you eat at home both in Norway and Sweden.. I trust both people from Finland and Denmark would agree as well... but for Iceland..... I have no clue. :P
Lapskaus looks nice but I wouldn't think about it with pork. We call it Lapskojs but that is made with beef.. I however always do it with raindeer or moose/elk and have always thought that it was made in that way so thank you TH-cam.. I've learnd something today. :)
in usa you guys have 'caribou', and that is basically a raindeer, but in norway, we dont have the 'caribou', only the original raindeer. And just to clarify one thing, that fish dish that he called 'fishpie', it is NOT a pie, it is a 'Gratin'. In Other words, translated to english, 'Fishgratin'. and those dishes, 'fiskegrateng' and 'kjøttkaker' are traditional norwegian dishes, that we usually eat on sundays and sometimes in the weekdays, it is what you might call in the us, traditional 'Mom and Pop food. :)
There are reindeer in America too. 😊
Also, I'm not a fish guy, but fiskegrateng I can eat. 😉
That, and fish sticks with potatos and melted butter.
They forgot so many kinds of food. Raspeballer.
Sweet buns like Skillingsboller and Skoleboller.
The white lady cake.
Lefse. Soft flatbread.
Smach.
Statos.
Solo soda.
Villa soda.
Urge soft drink.
I prefer to make fish pai with Cod not Salmon. Much better taste.
"There are 32 caribou herds in Alaska, with an estimated population of around 750,000" - Google. Caribou is the same animal as reindeers, but you guys call them Caribou if they're wild and reindeer if they're domesticated. Here in Norway they're all reindeers.
Lamb vertical common in Australia, along with beef, pork, chicken, turkey, kangaroo we also have venison/deer not as common but still available.
Bergen is alright, but it doesn't matter what it looks like when the climate is so sucky. The amounts of rain and wind that city gets a year? It's beyond anything possible. Worse than Seattle and everything you can imagine haha. They sell umbrellas in every store, that's how bad it is
Most Norweegians has a special realationship to "Moms" homemade Kjøttkaker. (Meatcake). The Norweegian Kjøttkake is much bigger than the Sweedish Kjøttbolle (Meatball). They are made the same way, but with the different seasoning. The Norweegain Meatcake is made with salt and pepper as sassoning, but the Sweedish Meatballs can be used alot of different spices as barbeque, basel+++. The Norweegian Kjøttkake is served with potatos with brown sause and also added raw carrot shavings and linging berry sause. The Fiskegrateng (Fishpie) is made out of White sause (Flower,butter and milk) ,maccaroni, cod fish and some carrots with dried bread crums on top and is gratinated in the oven. Served with some meltet butter and some raw carrot shavings.. And the Lapskaus (Pork Stew) is made from smoked or regular Pork meat, potatos, root veggies, carrots and maybe some cabbage. This is mostly served with Flatbrød (Flat bread) but dan also be served with some slices of bread with butter. The traditional Norweegian coucine is put together by differet leftover meats since before the 60`s (When Norway found Oil and became a prosper nation) we were a poor country. The norweegian who lived outside in the country side, hade to make the ends meet by using all of the animal, left overs from fish dinners and so forth. There were no waste..
Ahahahaahah, every time i go to the city to drink, i end the day by going to 3-kroneren :) aka "The sausage shop", it's been around for almost 80 years now xD
Also, most the foods reviewed in this video are very typicall dinner recepies in Norway, with the exception of Sushimi as it is quite expensive, and difficult to make well at home. The gratinated fish bowl and kjøttkaker (meatballs) are very easy to make, so many eat it on a weekly basis. Youth living by themselves usually don't make this kind of foods, and stick to pizza, pasta, tacos and other international foods that are quick to make.
Norwegian food when not salted, dried or pickled is focused very on FRESHNESS. Spices are therefore not a big thing, just some salt and black pepper, because you don't need to mask any smell or taste. Any frozen or fresh fish you buy here, you can just throw some salt on it, throw it in the oven, 20 minutes later, lovely food. Serve with some potatoes, carrots and butter, delicious.
Also, sadly he didn't try the bacon-wrapped cheese-filled hotdog, its a staple diet you find in all gas stations in Norway, and every Canadian and American is immediately addicted.
And there ARE stores in the US that sell brown cheese, you have probably even had many burgers with brown cheese that just wasn't caramelized enough to be noticeably browned. Because a lot of burger cheeses are specially made to melt quickly.
Cheese, ice cream, yoghurt, etc. all come from milk, just different parts and treatments. I wouldn't replace cheese with brown cheese when preparing food, just like I wouldn't replace sour cream with ice cream. They both come from milk, and both have the word 'cream' in the name, but they're very different products! So don't get so hung up on the word 'cheese'. Technically it's not even cheese, but since it's a product from the cheesemaking process, and the consistency is similar, that's what it was called (though 'brown' wasn't always the adjective used). But it's its own thing.
When making cheese, milk is warmed up and starts furmenting. When it has thickened, it's strained it to remove the whey. Whey contains a lot of lactose and proteins. In much of the world it's simply thrown out as a waste product (or sometimes made into protein powder in modern time). But wasting "food" wasn't really an option back in the day, so farmers experimented with the whey. "Prim", caramelised whey with a dash of cream and a buttery consistency, was mentioned in the early 1800s, but when/where it started is unknown. In the 1880s the "prim" was reduced further and 'brunost' became popular.
Maybe I should send you a package with some Norwegian food 😁 bet you a nickel you’ll like it 😊 specially the brown cheese. Greetings from a fan from Norway 🇳🇴
I'd recommend you react to the Norwegian TV show called brødrene dal. Idk if you'll find a version with English subtitles, but it's worth a shot.
"the americans love cheese" Come on Tyler, you mean the american cheese? :) that is not cheese mate i'm afraid, by any means. It is industry standard melted plastic :) Half-joking of course, but still. And i looove cheese, omg, the best food on the planet, cheese with everything basically!
3 KRONEREN has the greatest hot dogs in the land!!! Eat there everytime I'm in Bergen!!!
In Norway raw fish is less common than coocked fish, but we can usually eat both. You also don't have to worry about the fish in Norway as Norway has some of the highest standered of fish in Norway, and in the fishmarket in Bergen all fish is VERY fesh often caught between 2-0 days. Also Raindeer, moose and such is cheap in hot dog form and burger form, but steaks, loins and sausage (not the same as a hot dog) is often pretty expensive, though not much more expensive than loin and steak from cow.
The brunsost also is far from candy like, but you really have to try it to fully get it. Also, all foods in this video is pretty common in Norway.
You really should visit Norway sometime. If you'd like I bet anyone in the comments here (including me) would be glad to be a guid if you came to Bergen.
Personally I can't take brunost (most Norwegians would probably disagree with me though). But it might surprise you that other countries have actually been making business out of it for a couple of years now. It is so popular in South Korea that they have established their own Synnøve stores (a Norwegian brunost brand) in the country and people are queuing up to get it. Both Norwegians and Koreans are very different in their food traditions compared to Americans though, so it would be interesting to see how the brunost sales would do in the States.
And fiskegrategn and kjøttkaker (the two dinners) are normal, everyday meals :)
I have heard they sell norwegian food in Minnesota,, since it's many norwegian-american who lives there. And I'm not sure which city you live in, but I guess there is norwegian food somewhere there to. 😊😊 Regards one from Trondheim, Norway 😁
Fiskegrateng and lapskaus is really cheap daily -food for Norwegian familys. My kids love both
I think you would like the Fiskegrateng, it is strangely similar to mac and cheese and doesn't taste much of fish. These dishes are all traditional foods that were normal everyday food before frozen pizza, sushi and tacos became the staple dinners.
Sausages i Norway are normally made from finely minced pork and lightly smoked, but there are many great specialty sausages made from other meats, and even decent vegetarian alternatives for those of us that have quit eating meat.
Hei. Depending on where you live in the us, you could check out a Norwegians sailor's church for Brown cheese. There is several types. Good luck and thank you for the video's. Mvh Knut
The reason that brunost is sweet, is that when one makes cheese from milk, the milk is separated. One part becomes regular cheese (similar to gouda, for instance). The byproduct is called whey. Whey contains lactose, which is the milk sugars. (Which is what most people react to if they claim to have a dairy allergy, that is in most cases a lactose intolerance (milder than an allergy, as you get an upset stomach, not a super-serious allergic reaction. There is another (but a lot less common) allergy, that is milk PROTEIN allergy, which is more serious, but that makes you allergic to ALL dariy.
Due to how whey (with all the lactose) is separated when hard cheeses are made, hard cheeses are naturally lactose free. (Cream/soft cheeses are a different story). And as you can understand, brown cheese is packed with lactose. (There's something available from the pharmacy called lactase (with an a, not o) which is an enzyme, that splits lactose into 2 different types of sugars, that a lactose intolerant person can have food/drinks with lactose, and avoid the upset stomach).
Well, you do have reindeer in North America, it’s just that you call it caribou. Might not be commonly used for food in the US, but I’m sure the meat is used in northern parts like Canada and Alaska maybe.
Not fancy at all, the three dinners at the end there are pretty normal dinners here. You can buy them as ready meals in stores or make them from scratch yourself. When I was growing up there was one from-a-bag version of lapskaus that was sold in stores that I really loved and made a lot. Sadly they stopped producing that one, and I miss it immensely. The fish gratin is the one I have the most out of the three, I get one of the frozen ready meals, it's really good :)
Another great video. Lobscouse is available in Liverpool, UK. Liverpool is a famous sea port on the North West of England. Norwegian sailors gave Liverpool their home made stew. So popular in Liverpool that natives from Liverpool are known as Scousers! We have a version here in Wales called Cawl, we are overun with sheep, more sheep than people here so Cawl is usually made with Lamb or Mutton (older sheep.
"Fiskegrateng" is just white sause, macaroni and cod. It's not fancy at all. Reindeer sausages aren't really that common. :)
No these are very common dishes ... meatballs with brown sauce and smashed peas (and potatoes ofcourse) are quite common, the Fish au Grateng is also quite common, atleast up here in the north, we usually make it with left over Cod from when we have had some steamed fresh cod.
Reindeer meat is also common, we usually have like either steak, Buljong or Skav (Flaked reindeermeat). But I am living at the coast up north so we are used to fresh fish ofcourse. When it comes to sushi it have to be made from frozen fish because of health issues... its to kill off things that can be in the fish.
The fish could have very well been caught this morning. Yesterday? You think we sell rotten fish? XD
Don't eat the Norwegian salmon though, it's all farmed. Doesn't really matter how "organic" it is, because you can't really get a clean, closed system with fish breeding. They still dump all kinds of medication and crap into the fish enclosures, and into the ocean. So its' bad for us and bad for the environment. Get cod or halibut instead, they are wild captured, that's the fish you want.
All but the raindeer sausage is common food in Norway. Lapskaus, fiskegrateng and kjøttkaker is eaten weekly by alot of us.
Its common in the north of Norway
you should do a video where you try a bunch of norwegian stuff (there are some norwegian communities around the US, I know) or you can import stuff..But def. try the brown cheese!
You should try whale beef/steak - oh mymymymymymy lord it is soooooooo good. A part of normal Norwegian cuisine back in the 80s, before the whales got so intelligent that they had to be protected. Sorry pigs, sheep and cows - you are not smart enough for the weirdos in the anti-whaling dork-league.
Someone else might correct me on this, but from my experience, many families with children have a designated day of the week where they eat fish, in order to ensure that the kids get used to consuming the Omega 3 and other nutrients that you get through fish that aren't as prevalent in other types of food. It's typical to serve fish pie on those days, since kids (who sometimes don't like fish or seafood), tend to find it easier to consume. Another common dish that's served on these days for the same purpose is "fish balls". Yeah, it's a silly name, but it is basically just what it sounds like - it's basically fish stock and flour that's been molded into a ball. It's usually served with potatoes and a very mild, white sauce that makes it taste quite mild and indistinctive, as opposed to fish-y.
Lapskaus is a pretty common food here. It's basically just a stew with your choice of vegetables and meat in it, so it can be prepared in different ways and with different ingredients. I don't think it's something most people eat regularly, but it's not an uncommon dish to eat here. I'm not sure where the name originates from, it doesn't sound Norwegian.
He must've found a stand that specializes in hot dogs, because you won't typically find hot dogs that large around Norway, and I've never actually seen any alternatives to pork and chicken hot dogs, other than the vegan/vegetarian varieties.
Around 16:45 they walk past Bergen's strip club
Lingonberries is Swedish,here we call it tyttebær.It is similar to your cranberries,I think
I think they missed "Får i kål" - sheep in cabbege". And the brown cheese is fanfuckingtastic - Im danish and I love it
I didn't like fish until I tried sushi, actually. As a kid we had fish cakes or grilled salmon, but still I don't love it. For some reason raw fish is much more appealing to me. Fish soup from Bergen is amazing though
I live in Bergen, and yeah that is normal Norwegian food/dinner/breakfast true the week. The Fiskegrateng is AWSOME, I have it with bacon bits and fresh grinded carrots and a dash of lemon on it and potato's, I LOVE IT!
You know when we are surrounded by fresh produce ALL over it is easy to make awesome food, and we are used to it, I can see it is "exotic" to many others tho.
Brown "cheese" you have to not think of it as cheese, it is made from milk yes but it do not have the same taste at all, the only "cheese" about it is its shape and name, it is VERY good of fresh toast with some strawberry jam on top, I had that for breakfast EVERY day growing up ;)
Don't be afraid of trying fish, worst thing that can happen is that you don't like some of it, best thing, you could end up loving it all and it is SUPER healthy for you ;) Why do you think we live longer than most over here? It is fresh food and lots of fish ofc =) No super prossecd "goop" as I call many American dishes, unhealthy and not good for you at all lol =)
When I was a little kid the fish market was just that, a fish market. The fishermen would come in with the morning catch and have live fish in tanks, which you'd pick what you'd like and they butcher it while you waited. Then as I grew older, it basically turned into a tourist trap.
Good to see 3kronen is still alive, used to be a regular stop after a night out, ending the night wit a chilli sausage with extra chillisauce was always a good option.
The brown cheese is a bit of an aquired taste, when you get it as a kid, most times you either like it or you're not a fan. Can't really say I'ce met many norwegians who really hate it though.
The dinners are all common old dishes which was/is common to make at home. The lapskaus was also often a leftover meal, any type of salted meat slowboiled forever with rootfruits. You probably shouldn't think of the fish dish as a pie, think of it more as a mac 'n cheese dish prepared in the oven. Just replace the fake cheese with ground fish, a lil' bit of real cheexe, milk and eggs, and top it off with more cheese.
It's really weird to call fiskegrateng fish pie, it's not like a pie. All the three dishes at the end are quite common foods in Norway, and you can usually buy them mostly done at the supermarket. You can buy frozen kjøttkaker and frozen fiskegrateng and lapskaus you can heat easily at home. If you make them from scratch you are next level, you sometimes do but not as often as it takes a bit of time. Brunost you can't think about as cheese, I usually eat it on a sandwich with raspberry jam on top, but not as often as it's a bit much and a lot of sugar
Lingonberries are pretty simillar in taste to cranberries. They are not the same, but fairly similar. The go very well with different kinds of meat dishes.
I believe fiskegrateng is most commonly made with cod, but other white fish may be used as well.
I guess it's just a matter of what kind of fish you like. Personally I can't stand fish or other seafood.
Fiskegrateng is made with white fish meat, most commonly cod. My personal favorite, though, is made with angler. That fish sure is one of the ugliest critters in the sea, but it's just so delicious fried, deep fried, or in a fiskegrateng.
As a Norwegian who doesn't like seafood, I don't think you'd have any issues with the fish pie. It's basically mac and cheese, typically with some very small pieces of fish in it. I do struggle a little bit with eating it since I know there's fish in it, but it doesn't normally have a fish/seafood- like taste, at all.
As for surviving in Norway for someone who doesn't like seafood, I don't think it's any different from anywhere else. I've been to restaurants in the UK, Portugal, and a few other countries where I felt there was more of an expectation to like fish, and it was more difficult to find alternatives to it. In Norway, I think it's largely the coastal cities that sell and serve seafood with a different sense of pride about it. In the central and eastern parts of Norway, seafood is typically served just as an alternative for people who like it, whereas in places like Bergen it's hard to avoid the smell of the seafood market, and their restaurant menus often have a lot more seafood dishes on them.
I wasn't aware that reindeer hot dogs exist here, and since when did people start adding lingonberry jam to it? 😅
You should try the middle-norwegian specialty Sodd (soup) . Its meat broth with meat balls and salted meat as well as potatoes and carrots
Reindeer is very common in Norway, and you can buy reindeer meat at any supermarket. By law, only the indigenous Sámi population are allowed to own reindeer in Norway, so they run the industry. Reindeer husbandry isn't just an industry, it's a culture and a way of life.
heheh, Nah Tyler, Fiskegrateng is a common food. We eat fish in any way possible in Norway, and I would not be surprised if fish-candy kicked off in Norway. Some of our candy is even shaped like fish for some reason.
Reindeer meat isn´t as frequent in the south. The reindeer prefer to live in chillier areas so they are more common to eat up north of Norway. The west coast is where most of the fish is caught, so I think they are the ones who eat the most fish out of the country. Though sushi is eaten a lot in Oslo (its due to the accessibility to sushi).
Sashimi is literally raw fish. Sushi CAN have raw fish thinking that it Needs raw fish is a common misconception, and the name sushi actually refers to the vinegar treatment of the rice.
The meatballs, fish gratin and stew are not fancy, they are extremely common Norwegian traditional food. The meatballs can be a Sunday dinner but the fish gratin and stew are lazy cooking kind of foods even!
Lingen berries are European Cranberries. Taste the same but grow on short heather in the mountains rather than tall heather in a bog
Hi tyler, i´m from Bergen, Norway. If u planing on visit, any time soon. Hit me up, would love too show u around.😊
it beeing a unesco heritage doesn't prevent the local government to destroy it apparently. Unesco is actually giving them the green light (probably payed off) they want to build a light rail track across it and btw it's anything but light...
Lingonberries is popular in sweden as well (it is the swedish word that is used in the english name for it as well, they call it tyttebær in norway). It serves the same role as cranberries, but it taste somewhat different (though both are great).
These are traditional household foods served every week around norwegian homes, but perhaps not served as fancy.
Fish is huge in scandinavia generally, especially norway. And norwegian salmon is worth going to norway for.
There is overlap between sweden and norway in traditional foods because of historical roots and closeness.
Oh, and I have gotten served the lamb in cabbage meal you reacted to in another video in northern england. Probably due to the historical closeness between norway and Northern england.
"you killed a reindeer" not just a reindeer. I like think it's Rudolph 🤣
But he does taste GOOD!😉
Like I say are we very happy that you said hi we just don't say hi first we are very welcoming again just say hi first
Never eat Brown Cheese alone. It's like something strong that needs butter or jam to compliment it. On a piece of bread for example.